The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has arrived! Here's everything you might have missed in the trailer.

The trailer starts with a familiar sight: the reveal of Hogwarts. Though this is a location we know and love from the Harry Potter movies, this is the wizarding school’s first appearance in the Fantastic Beasts films.

Remember that Crimes of Grindelwald is set in 1927, so even though these locations are familiar, everyone is a lot younger… including fan favorite Dumbledore. We get a good look at Jude Law’s younger version character standing in what we later know as the Defense Against Dark Arts classroom from the Harry Potter-era films.

Considering Dumbledore is actually a Transfiguration Professor at this time -- the role Professor McGonagall later took on -- chances are this is actually the Transfiguration classroom in the 1920s.

He’s confronted by some very serious men tracking down Newt Scamander shortly after the events of the first Fantastic Beasts movie. The leader is a Ministry official named Torquil Travers. It’s worth noting that a man known only as “Travers” was a Death Eater under Voldemort, so this could be someone related to him.

It’s curious that they are seen apparating onto the bridge outside Hogwarts, considering it’s a known rule in the Harry Potter era that you can’t apparate into Hogwarts. Maybe this was a rule put into place because of something of happens during this movie.

Dumbledore and Newt share a history in the movies; before Newt was expelled from Hogwarts, his favorite professor stood by him and defended his actions. We see Dumbledore doing the same here when Newt is on the run.

They meet in secret on rooftops and later in the trailer Dumbledore tells Newt he needs him to go after the film’s title character, Grindelwald.

Though Grindelwald was captured at the end of Fantastic Beasts -- which we see here in this shot of Johnny Depp’s character -- we know from the broad plot of the movie that he escapes and goes to rally his followers.

Here we see him doing just that in what looks like it could be Nurmengard, his German stronghold that later served as his prison in Harry Potter lore. Because Dumbledore and Grindelwald share a history, which is explained in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book, Dumbledore needs Newt’s help to defeat the Dark Wizard.

Newt doesn’t stay long in London. We see him heading off to Paris, the primary setting of this movie.

There we see some familiar faces: Queenie is at what looks like it’s the French Ministry of Magic.

You can see that ministry here -- note the Louvre-like architecture and the names of magical creatures around the dome.

We also can spot familiar fantastic creature the Bowtruckle Pickett.

As well as a couple of new creatures like this kooky bird...

and a water creature that looks like a Kelpie that Newt is taking for an underwater ride.

Also notably in Paris -- see the Eiffel Tower? -- is Ezra Miller’s Credence, who clearly has learned to control his Obscurus a bit more since the last time we saw him.

Next to him is Claudia Kim’s new character, a Maledictus witch. She carries a blood curse that has her fated to turn into a beast.

We see a magical French carnival here, which is of note because...

Credence seems to be hiding out there based on his outburst here. Or he could be trying to free creatures from the circus.

Also seemingly in Paris is Newt’s former friend and maybe crush Leta Lestrange, played by Zoe Kravitz, who we only saw in a framed photo in the first film.

Another notable introduction is this look at Newt’s brother Theseus Scamander, played by Callum Turner. A powerful Auror and war hero, Theseus is engaged to Leta Lestrange.

We also seem to see these two in that earlier shot of Ministry officials entering Hogwarts, though they are absent during the confrontation with Dumbledore.

The Lestrange family seems to have a bigger role in this film as an unidentified man is seen in the hide out of someone who is very obsessed with all things Lestrange.

This shot later in the trailer seems to be that same person blowing up that room.

We also get our first look at William Nadylam’s new wizard character Yusuf Kama.

The trailer is filled with plenty of other fun nods to the Harry Potter films. We see the return of Dumbledore’s Deluminator at the 25 second mark, which memorably was used in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone to turn off all the lights on Privet Drive.

The thestrals from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix can be seen pulling this carriage.

And of course the Deathly Hallows -- the symbol of Grindelwald -- appears at the very end of the trailer.

Remember that Crimes of Grindelwald is set in 1927, so even though these locations are familiar, everyone is a lot younger… including fan favorite Dumbledore. We get a good look at Jude Law’s younger version character standing in what we later know as the Defense Against Dark Arts classroom from the Harry Potter-era films.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer - Image Breakdown

03/14/2018

The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has arrived! Here's everything you might have missed in the trailer.